Welcome to part two of my microblog series on the overlooked killers of engineering teams—the problems that quietly erode productivity in the DevOps community without getting much attention. I previ...
In a world obsessed with hustle, burnout, and 10x developer myths, DoozieSoft takes a different stand.We don’t reward all-nighters.
We don’t glorify chaos.
We don’t expect heroics.
We value syst...
Lend me your eyes and read this article about the importance of code reviews.In a recent job interview, I mentioned that I tend to be a bit of a nitpicker when reviewing pull requests, albeit in an ev...
Not your values doc. Not your town hall. Your PRs.
Everyone loves to talk about team culture - the principles, the rituals, the retros full of optimistic stickies.
But if you want to see how ...
In this second post of my series on giving and taking, I explore why reciprocity intelligence—the ability to navigate giving and receiving effectively—isn’t just nice to have anymore. If you mis...
You Ship the Fix. PM Claps. Slack Drops a Few Thumbs Up.
You smile. Quietly.What no one sees:
The junior who caught the edge case.
The reviewer who poked the right hole.
The ops engineer ...
You’re Great at Cleaning Up Code But Terrible at Cleaning Up Your Life
It’s 7:58 PM.
You swore you’d log off at 6.
But that PR had a clunky abstraction, so you “just quickly” rewrot...
Titles Are for LinkedIn
You spot the smoke first.Not the fun kind, like “this feature is fire.” The real kind - bug reports, broken things, and Slack suddenly lighting up like a Christmas...
It’s a quiet, creeping voice. Sometimes it whispers after a standup:
“You sounded confident, but do you actually know what you’re doing?”Sometimes it shows up in your code review queue:
“Ev...
It’s 9:00 AM.
Standup.Someone says, “I’m blocked.”
You hear it - the sigh.
That deep, theatrical exhale that somehow carries the full weight of “your incompetence has personally ruined my da...